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Quality childcare provided. Babies and children can also stay with their mothers
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School Term 1 was spent learning felting skills and making felt squares and flowers for a textile quilt.

Term 2 2011 will involve quilting and Term 3 is Crotchet/Knitting.

The finished work will be donated for display at Lyons Early Childhood Centre.

ACT Writers’ Centre  www.actwriters.org.au

Australian Society of Authors  www.asauthors.org

www.writing-world.com

www.writerswrite.com

www.explorewriting.co.uk

http://research-writing-techniques.suite101.com/

BBC World Service: How to Write http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/howtowrite/index.shtml

Seton Hill University: 10 Tips for Novice Creative Writers http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative/shortstory/index.html

Short Story Writing

www.mahalo.com/how-to-write-a-short-story

BBC: Get Writing: How to Start Writing a Story http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A2981900

Author Network: How to Write a Short Story http://www.author-network.com/advice1.html

ESL Teacher’s Board: How to Write a Short Story http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/writing/index.pl?noframes;read=37

eHow: How To Write a Short Story  http://www.ehow.com/how_3337_write-short-story.html

Joseph Masucci: The Least You Should Know About Outlining Your Short Story (2000) http://massucci.com/Articles/Outlines/outlines.html

Seventh Sanctum: Online Story Generator http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=storygen

TIME: How to Write a Short Story http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1555136,00.html

Wikipedia: Antagonist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antagonist

wikiHow: How to Write a Short Story http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Short-Story

wikiHow: How to Write a Great Short Story http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Great-Short-Story

Writing101.com: Tips for Writing a Short Story  http://www.write101.com/shortstory.htm

Writing Corner: You Can Write a Short Story http://writingcorner.com/young/shortstory-1.htm

Writing-World.com: Your Story Outline: What’s It All About? http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/outlining.shtml

http://www.explorewriting.co.uk/FictionCategory.html

http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/index.shtml

http://www.writerswrite.com/cgi-bin/fictart.pl

Writing for Children

http://writingforyoungchildren.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_write_for_young_children

http://writingforyoungchildren.suite101.com/article.cfm/how_to_write_for_young_children_the_3rs#ixzz0etfrrtHv

www.write4kids.com

writingforchildren.suite101.com/

www.writingforchildrenandteens.com/

www.explorewriting.co.uk/WritingForChildren.html

www.writing-world.com/children

www.writerswrite.com/childrens/

www.scbwiaustralia.org/

Australian Centre for Youth Literature  www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/centreforyouthliterature/youthlit.html

Family History / Creative Non-fiction

http://resourcesforwriters.suite101.com/article.cfm/writing-creative-nonfiction#ixzz0ewGhaMmS

http://www.ehow.com/how_5590744_write-memoir-easy-way.html

http://www.explorewriting.co.uk/Memoirs.html

http://www.explorewriting.co.uk/FamilyScrapBooks.html

http://www.writing-world.com/creative/index.shtml

http://www.ehow.com/how_2103529_write-family-memoir.html

http://writingmemoirs.suite101.com/article.cfm/digging_for_entertaining_family_history_stories

Editing

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/proofread.html

http://www.copyblogger.com/edit-your-writing-2/

http://home.earthlink.net/~jdc24/selfEdit.htm

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/five-words-you-can-cut/

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/category/misused-words/

Thanks to everyone who came last week for session 1 of creative writing, it was wonderful to see so many people attending and heaps of new faces among them.  I hope the exercise we did was beneficial for you and got the juices flowing a bit.

I will be posting links on this site to some of the material we cover in class so don’t worry if you miss a session, you’ll be able to access it all online at your own convenience.

This week we will be looking at editing and doing a short exercise practising editing some small sample pieces of work.  After that we will have time for working on our own writing projects.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

PS Some people last week mentioned wanting to read some of my work. I will bring some of my books along to this week’s session to satisfy your curiosity. In the meantime you can check out my blog at www.melindasmith.wordpress.com

Singing teacher Cecilia led us through a few breathing and relaxation exercises first, some of which were very funny – blowing raspberries in a room full of other adults is more entertaining than you might think!

After that we sang some nursery rhymes, an indigenous ballad, spiritual songs and Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” (you probably know the version recorded by James Taylor). A very enjoyable way to spend the morning.

If you missed the show, you can see the works in the virtual exhbition.

This article appeared in The Chronicle on 19 January 2009.

View the virtual exhibition here.

Clicking on the description of an artwork will take you to a separate image of that artwork, and clicking that image will enlarge it. Many thanks to Ann McMahon for the wonderful photographs.

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